A Guide to University of South Alabama Collections at The McCall Library
Mischka, one of the original Jaguar mascots, c. 1968.
The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library houses more than 450 linear feet of archival material related to the University of South Alabama. Some of the more important records include the papers of the Board of Trustees, the Foundation, and the former presidents. These collections are listed alphabetically in this guide. Additional collections related to education are also available.
Please note: not listed here are the thousands of images we have connected with 吃瓜爆料.
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| Title | Description | Categories | Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALDWIN, HAROLD W. (05-09-431) |
Dr. Wes Baldwin taught in the Philosophy Department of the University of South Alabama for more than three decades. He also served in numerous other capacities during his tenure. His collection consists of material related to some of those activities. One of those was serving on the University Research Committee, and the collection includes reports (1971鈥�1988) to the dean of academic affairs detailing activities and recommendations; lists (1969鈥�1971, 1974鈥�1980) of faculty research interests and publications; minutes (1971鈥�1977); miscellaneous memos (1972鈥�1983), and his personal file of documents (1999鈥�2002) while he was serving on that committee. Also within the collection are files related to the Promotion Review Committee, Writing Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on Retention and Recruitment, and Admissions and Records Committee, (1971鈥�1972, 1974鈥�1978). Other files in the collection include those involving a search for an acting associate dean (1990), nominations for Alabama Humanities Foundation awards, a proposed honors program and applied philosophy program, and various memos (1973鈥�2005) to university administrators, College of Arts and Sciences colleagues, and fellow instructors in the Philosophy Department. 1 linear foot.
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B | |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES | The McCall Library has 吃瓜爆料 Board of Trustees minutes on microfilm from 1963 to 1985
and in paper form from September 1998 to September 2005. 6 linear feet; 1 reel.
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B | |
| CALDWELL, JAMES F. (97-16-326) | This collection contains 10 audio cassettes of interviews with Dr. James Caldwell, former director of development and contracts for the University of South Alabama, about his role in the establishment and development of the university. A transcription of the tapes is available, as is a copy of a narrative dated 1997 and written by university student Peter Wilson, and a 1998 book titled Magic鈥揘o! Miracle鈥揧es!, which was based on the Wilson narrative. The collection also contains a memoir written by Caldwell for his children, ca. 1990; personal correspondence from 1957鈥�1990; a 吃瓜爆料 faculty list from 1965; a transcript of a meeting regarding the university Black Student Union from 1970; and newspaper and magazine articles. .5 linear foot. | C | |
| CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES (09-09-517) | Made up of DVDs, transcripts, and consent forms connected with a University of South Alabama Archaeology Department project known as 鈥淧reserving Oral Histories of the Central Gulf Coast.鈥� The interviews were conducted with residents of Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Living along the bayou and working in the seafood industry were the foci of the study. .75 linear foot. | C | |
| CLEVERDON, ERNEST G. (86-09-132) | These are the official papers of Ernest G. Cleverdon, who served on the Board of Trustees
of the University of South Alabama from 1963 to 1985. They include various official
printed reports and profiles, minutes of the board, legal suits, and correspondence.
1 linear foot.
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C | |
| CLUB FOOTBALL (551-2011) | Includes statistics and brochures relating to the University of South Alabama Club Football Program and newspaper clippings chronicling early attempts to bring collegiate football to the university. 0.1 linear foot. | C | |
| COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (84-03-70) |
Consists of pamphlets, articles on medical procedures, newspaper clippings, budget information, and the Mobile General Hospital newsletter The Tablet from October 1959 through December 1961 (with some issues missing). Most of the material is dated from the late 1950s into the late 1960s but the budget information is from 1977 and 1978. Of interest within the collection is a memorial to Dr. James F. Heustis, a report on Siamese twins born at the old Mobile General Hospital, a proposal dated 1967 from the Mobile County Hospital Board to the state legislature concerning the budget for Mobile General, and a brief history of City Hospital (as it was known before it became Mobile General). 1 linear foot. |
C | |
| COLLEGE OF NURSING | Contains minutes from College of Nursing meetings from 1978 through 1990. 2 linear feet. | C | |
| CONLON, JAMES (97-09-327) | Dr. James Conlon was a professor in the art department at the University of South
Alabama from 1967 until 1997. His collection consists of material related to various
programs and projects that he and fellow art professor Dr. James Kennedy worked on
during their professional careers. Projects discussed in the collection include an
Afro-American Visual Aids Project, the Ethnic American Art Slide Library Project,
a program in cultural inquiry, a children's playground pilot project, a proposal for
a materials design center, an estuary project for the Mobile Municipal Airport, a
吃瓜爆料 ceremonial mace project, and an "at play" project for the 吃瓜爆料 Children's and Women's
Hospital. Also included is material on the 1993 First Night Mobile, a city-sponsored
event that takes place each New Year's Eve in downtown Mobile. Of particular interest
may be a file related to black student grievances in 1969 and a file on the subject
of academic freedom. A finding aid is available on site. .25 linear foot.
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C | |
| FACULTY FORUM (83-08-63) | This was a brief publication of the Alabama Education Association at the University of South Alabama. It ran from the spring of 1974 to the spring of 1976. The collection is inclusive. .25 linear foot. | F | |
| FACULTY SENATE (90-09-214) | The Faculty Senate records include minutes, reports, correspondence, and related materials from 1977 to 1990. We also have minutes, memoranda, and other documents from the 鈥渙ld鈥� university senate which included administration and faculty. These materials date from 1968. Box inventories and a subject index to the collection are available on site. 15 linear feet. | F | |
| FOUNDATION | The University of South Alabama Foundation was established by former president Frederick
P. Whiddon in 1968 to support the needs of the university. The papers (1961鈥�1999)
include correspondence, financial statements, minutes, material related to Brookley
Field, to Medicaid, to the Julius T. Wright campus, and documentation involving the
Grant鈥檚 Pass dispute between the university and the state of Alabama. A finding aid
to the collection is available on site. A related collection is that of Michael Thomason. 20 linear feet.
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F | |
| GOTTLIEB, SHELDON (98-09-341) | From 1980 until 1997, Sheldon Gottlieb was a professor of biology, dean of the graduate
school, and director of research at the University of South Alabama. During this time,
Gottlieb also worked at the Baromedical Research Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana,
from 1984 until 1998. Gottleib was very active in both departmental and campus-wide
affairs. He was especially interested in the subject of academic freedom, in issues
of equity, and in the primacy of science over religion. Many of his published articles
relate to hyperbaric oxygen treatment and are included in this collection, along with
several very interesting letters to the editor of the local paper. There is also material
related to gerontology and to Gottlieb鈥檚 attempt to start a student organization called
the Freethought Association. In addition, there are files on two law cases, Mozert
v. Hawkins County Public Schools, which dealt with textbooks in a public school setting,
and Douglas Smith v. Board of School Commissioners / Smith v. Fob James, which concerned
prayer in the public schools. 1 linear foot.
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G | |
| HISTORY DEPARTMENT | The records of the 吃瓜爆料 history department are dated between 1966 and 2004 with the majority of them covering the period from 1966 to 1996. They include self-studies, information on recruitment and retention of students, correspondence related to a number of topics, faculty evaluations, departmental meetings, committees, curriculum, departmental reports, newsletters, policies and procedures, and budgets. Documents related to other university departments can also be found in this collection, including Economics, Political Science, Sociology, and the University Library (including The McCall Library). Also included are materials concerning a number of former history department faculty members, including Betty Brandon, Chen-Kuang Chuang, E. Lewis B. Curtis, George Daniels, A. T. Green, Larry Holmes, W. Robert Houston, Howard Mahan, Peyton McCrary, Joseph Nigota, William A. Speck, and Michael Thomason. Files pertaining to the Gulf Coast Historical Review are also included in the collection. Of particular interest are two files compiled by the former chair of the history department Howard Mahan about Mobile鈥檚 historical records and about the city during the late 1960s, and a series of files related to wars, peace, and the atomic bomb. 46 linear feet. | H | |
| HOLMES, LARRY (87-09-152) | This collection contains materials amassed by Dr. Larry E. Holmes, former professor of Russian history at the University of South Alabama, during the course of an administrative and legal battle between him and the university over tenure. The case revolved around issues related to academic freedom and civil rights. The papers include a chronology of events, documents related to the FBI and its concern with Holmes鈥� activities, correspondence, memoranda, briefs, interrogatories, affidavits, newspaper clippings, reports, and depositions. The collection also includes a CD of an interview conducted in August 1973 with Holmes by Mike Sloan of the local radio station WABB and Don Henry of the Alabama Education Association. A later donation made by Holmes was added to this collection and contains correspondence, grant awards and applications, newspaper clippings and other material related to Holmes鈥� professional career, and a copy of Holmes鈥� 1997 article on Moscow School No. 25 that appeared in the Slavic Review. 1 linear foot. | H | |
| HUGGINS, CLYDE G. (95-08-299) | Dr. Clyde G. Huggins was the associate dean for academic affairs in the Medical School at the University of South Alabama. His papers include articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal notes (in the form of a diary), student papers, and minutes. Correspondence makes up a small part of the collection but does include letters to / from Samuel Eichold and Arthur A. Wood. Of particular interest is a file devoted to material about the creation of a medical school in the city and the research papers about the Mobile surgeon Harry Tutwiler Inge, the old Mobile Medical College, the Mobile psychiatrist Eugene Bondurant, the Mobile physician George A. Ketchum, the Board of Health and Quarantine Station in Mobile in the 1870s, the 1853 Yellow Fever epidemic, and the first dean of the College of Medicine Robert M. Bucher. Other items of note in the collection are a biography of Monte L. Moorer written by David G. Tipton, a series of caricatures on slides representing faculty in the College of Medicine, a history of Mobile General Hospital, a history of medicine in Mobile and of family practice as a specialty in general. The collection also includes documents related to the Franklin Society and the History of Medicine Society at 吃瓜爆料. A condensed finding aid to the collection is available onsite. 1 linear foot. | H | |
| HUMANITIES COMPLEX (05-09-428) | Completed in 1974, this collection contains material compiled by the ad hoc committee for |